How coffee should be #Espresso

I come from a place where drinking coffee means drinking filtered coffee; i.e. coffee filtered through a paper filter into a big jar (of watery coffee).
But now that I live in Spain I've learn't the best method for brewing a coffee is to make an Espresso.
This morning, just making a coffee on coffee my break and you can see how the plastic stirring stick sits up in the coffee because it's so thick and creamy.
It's a whole different experience from filtered coffee I've been brought up with. Of course you can also add milk or frothed milk to make a cappuccino...